Whether your business demands a straightforward Oracle® database implementation or an end-to-end, integrated enterprise solution, IBM X6 (x3850 X6 & x3950 X6) powers the diverse Oracle workloads. X6 servers are some of the faster x86 servers on the market, the most agile 4&8 socket servers and provide the highest resiliency available. X6 servers are certified for both Oracle Linux and Oracle VM.
Oracle is the number one database management system in the world. According to the IDC Worldwide Database Management System... [Continue Reading]

Its not always easy to remember where to quickly get information when you need it and in a way that you can digest it, reference it or provide it to someone else. Some great externally available X6 and x3750 M educational and sales tools exist. In this blog, I will highlight some of best information available and provide an external link to make it easy to access it.
How-To Guides
System x3850 X6 and x3950 X6 Quick Start Guide
This quick start guide addresses the best... [Continue Reading]

Communications Service Providers (CSP) operate in a complicated environment that is intensely competitive, highly regulated, and beset by rapid technical change. Today’s business models are based on insight – into customers, competitors, and their own networks and business processes – and providers need advanced computing platforms that are fast, agile and resilient to sustain these powerful new business models.
To address restrained spending, turn customers into advocates, and manage their networks to a higher level of... [Continue Reading]

To succeed, manufacturing enterprises are becoming increasingly technology enabled, and technology dependent, in the way they run their businesses. Forward-looking companies understand that their supply chain is technology enabled and demand driven, and they are turning to information technology (IT) to help them be stronger competitors.
Technology supports R&D, product development and gives decision makers sharp visibility into their supply chains. This is the world of Big Data, and an enterprise needs the capabilities to ... [Continue Reading]

A recent Microsoft Technical Report did an evaluation of scale-up vs scale-out performance.
Here are the summary findings:
In the last decade, we have seen a huge deployments of cheap clusters to run data analytics workloads. Popular analytics infrastructures such as Hadoop are aimed at such scale-out environments.
Is this the right approach? The majority of real world analytic jobs process less than 100GB of input, but popular infrastructures such as Hadoop/MapReduce were originally designed for petascale... [Continue Reading]

In the previous blog, I spoke about Enterprise applications that drive the need for 4 and 8 socket scale-up deployments . In this blog, I talk about the business value of scale–up deployments.
Companies consolidating workloads from scale-out x86 servers to scale-up servers can experience savings in a number of categories, including server and networking cost reduction, licensing fee reduction, and avoidance of costs associated with IT staffing as well as datacenter... [Continue Reading]

Some application and workloads lend themselves particularly well to scale-up rather than scale-out deployments. Factors contributing to a decision to scale up rather than scale out include processing and memory requirements, the number of end users, scalability cost and administrative cost.
Scaling up allows you to add CPU, Memory, I/O and Storage to your servers, and it does not require you re-write your application to harness the new horsepower.
For large databases, scale-up architectures can provide higher levels of scalability... [Continue Reading]

The Decline of Itanium
Uncertainty around Intel’s support for Itanium processors as well as the uncertainty about Oracle, Microsoft and Red Hat’s continuing support for Itanium has generated questions about the viability of Itanium long term.
Other issues have hurt Itanium include:
• The broken ecosystem including ISVs dropping support
• Costly operating system licensing and costly hardware
• Weak performance on a per core basis.... [Continue Reading]

Fact 1: It took a “village” of experts to conceive the unique modular design of X6. Those experts were on a mission to design systems that could drive data center efficiency.
One specializes in high end hardware development. Another has expertise in human factors engineering. The third is highly-skilled in industrial design and improving the user experience. The fourth and fifth have extensive backgrounds in mechanical engineering. Design experts Tim Wiwel, Dan Kelaher, Camillo Sassano, Paul Wormsbecher and Jack... [Continue Reading]

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